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[Solved] [Void Linux] Audio refuses to work on a new user (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I created a new user on this system but anything with sound plain doesn't work - the main user of the system has no issue though.

I already added the new user to the audio group, pulseaudio and pipewire are started by xfce during login too.

For example, when trying to open an mp3 file with mpv I get this:

[ao/pulse] The stream is suspended. Bailing out.

[ao] Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'

Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.

Audio: no audio

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure you want pipewire and pulseaudio installed and trying to run?

Maybe replace pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse, unless I'm missing something from your post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it was it. Why was it starting by default though? I don't recall fiddlying with pipewire at all...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You don't need pulseaudio and pipewire at the same time because pipewire provides pulseaudio-compatible server (pipewire-pulse). Also, pipewire usually doesn't require audio group. Did you follow the official docs or other online guide?